As to airpower.
Anyhow, the question is how do you meet the brass needs for well creased pants and lower airpower with frontline grease needs for faster aircover.

The answer is tactical mappers. For guys who are tactically trained to read maps for ambush zones. It doesn’t take much on a map especially today’s scoped maps–where they can zoom through those high barren valley virtually and find the best places for an ambush.

I don’t think finding the best ambush site is rocket science. The bad guys will see them too. That’s where they’ll be.

So design patrols to pull the bad guys into the open at the designated trap points–ie places where the terrain shows the best place for an ambush & have the airpower already off the ground to provide support in minutes.

Shouldn’t be too tough to find ambush sites within away from heavily populated areas–but not so far as that the local bad guys won’t notice.